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Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0
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On Monday 06 February 2006 10:04, you wrote:
> The thing I found with DDNS was getting the darn client to return the
> correct hostname. =A0For some reason, without setting it in
> dhclient.conf, the DNS would not update, even if I have configured
> the DHCP server to do the updates.

Yep, AOL. This was the case with the ISC client, too. I have always thought=
=20
being able to use such trickery as

send host-name `hostname -s`;

would be quite useful, especially for those of us who distribute configurat=
ion=20
files with rsync and similar. In fact, it would be quite a useful default f=
or=20
dhclient.
=2D-=20
Matt Dawson.

matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk
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